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So, like Paul Krugman, Martin Wolf, and others, I would expand fiscal deficits, not try to
shrink
them.
From May 2010, this insolvency was addressed by means of sequential extend-and-pretend loans on conditions that were guaranteed to
shrink
national income, investment, and credit.
Even the country’s proverbial inequality is beginning to shrink, albeit slowly, and lower-middle-class living standards are finally rising to where they should have been a decade ago.
Since a country’s current-account surplus is the difference between its national saving and its national investment, China’s current-account surplus is likely to continue to
shrink
in the coming years.
Discussion of China’s currency focuses around the need to
shrink
the country’s trade surplus and correct global macroeconomic imbalances.
Meanwhile, governments were running large deficits – a legacy of the economic downturn – which renewed growth was supposed to
shrink.
A fertility rate of 1.4 and near-zero immigration mean that Japan’s workforce could
shrink
by 28% over the next 50 years, making health care for the elderly unaffordable and dramatically increasing the fiscal deficit, which is already running at 4% of GDP.
The fact is that our way of life is predicated on security and stability, without which investment withers, employment collapses, and economies
shrink.
In reality, the coup leaders’ main concern was to avoid admitting what they had been doing since 2010: extending a generalized bankruptcy into the future by forcing Greece to accept new, European taxpayer-funded loans, conditional on ever-greater austerity that could only
shrink
Greek national income further.
The EU, usually so keen to
shrink
my ministry’s outlays on wages and pensions, did not exactly embrace my decision.
In theory, as the economy picks up and interest rates begin to climb, central banks will simply pay higher interest rates on their reserves, so that they can finance their holdings of long-term securities and
shrink
them slowly.
Most demographers expect Russia’s population to
shrink
significantly over the coming decades.
After all, we cannot
shrink
atoms or increase the speed of light.
With fewer children to replenish the workforce, the working-age cohort of those 15-64 years old would
shrink
from 68.4% to 60.7%.
By 2050, the European Union’s labor force could
shrink
by about 12%, or some 42 million workers.
Repeated stress causes neurons in the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex to
shrink
and lose connections with other nerve cells, while it also causes neurons in the amygdala to grow and form new connections.
As national budgets
shrink
under the effects of austerity, the EU should review member states’ spending on security.
In the event of a loss of market confidence, state guarantees for that much funding would further strain market perceptions of French creditworthiness, generating more pressure on French banks to
shrink
their balance sheets rapidly.
Numerous studies show that government spending “multipliers,” even when large at the ZLB,
shrink
rapidly, then turn negative – and may even be negative during economic expansions and when households expect higher taxes beyond the ZLB period.
In an economy unequipped for growth, household wealth relative to wages would soar, and the labor supply would shrink, causing employment to contract.
The reality, of course, is that many countries, especially OECD members, will decide that they need more immigrants as their own populations age and
shrink.
In China, a hard economic landing looks increasingly likely as the investment bubble deflates and net exports
shrink.
Indeed, China plans to
shrink
its trade surplus – which, to be sure, remains large – and offset the negative impact of that process by increasing domestic demand.
It is time to face the fact that Europe’s peripheral countries have to
shrink
their nominal GDP to regain competitiveness.
From 2015-2040, this group is expected to
shrink
by more than 115 million.
The former boom countries – Greece, Ireland, and Spain – remain in recession, and their GDPs will continue to
shrink.
The Spanish economy contracted by 3.6% in 2009, and is expected to
shrink
by 0.4% this year.
In fact, however, exchange rates will change – and need to change in order to
shrink
the existing trade imbalances.
Were Moody’s to follow S&P in stripping the US of its triple-A rating, the most likely outcome is that the universe of global investors who are both able and willing to increase their holdings of US government securities would
shrink
over time.
So this is what a US debt default would look like: the private sector would collapse, unemployment would quickly surpass 20%, and, while the government would shrink, it would remain the employer of last resort.
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